I realize that I hunger for conversation. Substantive, insightful conversation with people that I meet. It is this prize that I should have in mind when I enter social settings. That way, fear of interaction must take a back seat. It cannot dominate when there is a strong objective nurturing every thought that is formed and every sentence that is spoken. We will be adept at conversation insha'Allah, as if we were travellers alone in the wild.
posted by The Hijabi Jedi at 10:03 PM
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fascinating. i hunger for it much in the same way, although i'm sure you're a way better conversationalist. my aim through the conversations i have? to elicit some new piece of information, to learn something new that i don't know from before. hence, i'm always questioning.
my problem then becomes - different from what you point about fear of interaction - that conversation does not necessarily "go with the flow;" the purpose of it sometimes is too purposeful for certain people. i then grapple with the question: is it better to converse naturally with a person, and have natural pauses, natural figuring out of "where do we go from here," or to always have a strong objective in every thought about to exit through your mouth?
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